Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-15
THURSDAY......D DECEMBER Is, 1887.
Chandler'g Bill.

In 1876 WILLIAM L. CHANDLER was
one OF the conspirators who deirauded
the people Of the United States OF their
President and put RUrHERFoRD b. HAYES
ia his place. He was one of the "visit-
ing statesmen as they were called. We
were about to say that visiting vii
lains would have been a more appro-
pirate phrase TO apply to the conspira-
tors alluded to. JOIN SHERMAN was an
other OF these plotters. He made him
self busy in Louisiana, as CHANDLER
made himself busy in Florida. And
now CHANDLER has the unblushing i'm
pudence to introduce into the United
States Senate bill to regulate congress
sional elections in the very States whose
electoral votes he and bis partners in
crime counted against Mr.. TuDES in
1876.
Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana,
and Mississippi have each a negro popu-
lstion exceeding in number its white
population and the effect of Mr.. GLAND
LER's bill would be TO do by law what he
and SHERMAN and the rest of the gang of
Republican rascals did in 1876 by fraud
ulent counting.
We suggest that for Mr.. CHANDELIERS
bill q substitute be offered which shall
provide that the votes of all the States
in which the negroes constitute a ma
jority OF the population shall be counted
for the Republicans and the votes of ali
the States in which the whites constitute
a majority Of the population shall be
counted for the Democrats. Let us have
real white mans party and a real negro
party. If one State is to be counted for
the Republican party because it happens
to have more negroes than whites within
its limits, let us be fair TO the white race
and count for the Democrats oil the
States which have more whites than ne
groes within their limits.
Mr.. CHANDLER knows that his bill
would not be passed by the House Of
Representatives even if he should sue
coed in securing its passage by the Sen
ate. II is either a mere scheme to IA
miliarize the public with Federal control
of congressional elections, or else an at
tempt to make capital I'm the northern
States. At time when the States have
been nearly consolidated into one cen
trail despotsm in consequence of the
legislation of the Republican party, the
people can hardly be in humor to look
with favor upon any new scheme in
tended to dwarf the several States and
concentrate all power in the National
Government.
We have said that Mr.. CHANDLER
knows that his bill will not be passed by
the House of Representatives. We do
not believe that it will be passed by the
Senate. We are confident that il will
never be signed by Mr.. CLEVELAND, and
therefore is in no danger of becoming
law. What do tariff views. or anti-silver
notions, orany othersuch objection to Mr..
CLEVELAND amount TO when we consider
that he stands up for the defence of the
rights of the people against the diabolical
plottings OF the " Republican rascals >?
He is set for the defence of the Consti-
tuition, and the preservation of the re-
public. He intends to transmit to pos
terity tho free institutions which our
fathers handed down to us, or 80 much
OF them as he can save from the wreck
which INSCRIPTIONS traitors have at
tempted to make of them.